Fabrication and electrical transport properties of embedded graphite microwires in a diamond matrix
arXiv:1702.05409 · doi:10.1088/1361-6463/aa6013
Abstract
Micrometer width and nanometer thick wires with different shapes were produced $\approx 3~\upmu$m below the surface of a diamond crystal using a microbeam of He ions with 1.8~MeV energy. Initial samples are amorphous and after annealing at ~K, the wires crystallized into a graphite-like structures, according to confocal Raman spectroscopy measurements. The electrical resistivity at room temperature is only one order of magnitude larger than the in-plane resistivity of highly oriented pyrolytic bulk graphite and shows a small resistivity ratio(). A small negative magnetoresistance below ~K was measured and can be well understood taking spin-dependent scattering processes into account. The used method provides the means to design and produce millimeter to micrometer sized conducting circuits with arbitrary shape embedded in a diamond matrix.
arXiv comment12 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (Feb. 2017)
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